Subject // 9 editions
#ai
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009
The dead got the right to their voices before you did
A right invented to protect a living girl from a flour company is now property, best protected when its owner is dead. Elvis has written the law twice.
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008
Who do I vote for, ChatGPT?
Someone has always told you how to vote. Until this year they had to say it out loud.
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007
The beta test is over — things are about to get very real
For a century, Western democracies sold surveillance abroad and told themselves the distance was the difference. The distance was only a delay, because A.I. ships overnight.
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006
Rejection was the product
Courtship always had a proxy. This is the first one that’s cheaper than the person — and built by someone who needs you never to leave.
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005
We’ve built a parent that never fails. Good luck with that.
Every parent eventually says “not now.” A.I. never will — and the found limit turns out to be the curriculum.
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004
Nobody has a gigawatt to sell
The wage was the mechanism. A.I. can end it as the price of survival. It cannot end the appetite for advantage — and what happens next is decided by who owns what stays scarce.
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003
The screenshot is the institution now
Cornell didn’t reopen the case because the evidence changed. It reopened because the audience did. That’s the advance, and that’s the indictment.
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002
There are no Luddites left
Technology has never been stopped by the people who resisted it. It has always been shaped by them. A.I. is arriving into the weakest resistance environment in two hundred years.
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001
Every technology gets a priesthood. A.I.'s won't last.
Computing has created and dissolved a class of intermediaries four times. We are in the fifth, and it is behaving exactly like the others.